tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2090864816180155883Fri, 08 Nov 2024 15:38:08 +0000moviesmovie reviewsmovie reviewMartyAcademy Award for Best PictureAlfred HitchcockBing CrosbyChristmasEraserheadErnest BorgnineGrace KellyHolidaysPaddy ChayefskyProfessor Harold HillRear WindowRobert PrestonRosemary ClooneyThe BirdsThe BlobThe Music ManTippi Hedrenring of bright waterMovies from my memorieshttp://ginamoviemaven.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Gina Faust)Blogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2090864816180155883.post-1196756665731063510Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:27:00 +00002009-09-07T19:41:34.091-04:00moviesProfessor Harold HillRobert PrestonThe Music ManImage via WikipediaWhen The Music Man hit the screen in the 1960s, I was still a teenager. Fancying myself too sophisticated for such corny fare, I was reticent to see it. But my girlfriends all wanted to go together and make an afternoon of it. So I put down one of the fantasy books I was so fond of reading at the time, I made like a sheep and followed.As I suspected, the movie was corny. I http://ginamoviemaven.blogspot.com/2008/06/music-man-as-muse.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gina Faust)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2090864816180155883.post-8609402159467707021Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:54:00 +00002010-04-15T11:27:46.694-04:00Ernest BorgnineMartymovie reviewsmoviesCover of Marty (1954)I started this blog with the combined goal of discussing movies and purging any hidden bits of my childhood dysfunction. Discussing movies and my memories of seeing them for the first time turned out to be the easy part. The purging is another story entirely. I'm not under the illusion that people actually want to read about how my semi-twisted upbringing affected my life. http://ginamoviemaven.blogspot.com/2008/06/marty-redux.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gina Faust)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2090864816180155883.post-6558894759376130608Thu, 29 May 2008 06:47:00 +00002010-04-01T14:04:19.552-04:00Alfred HitchcockGrace KellymoviesRear WindowImage via WikipediaI was nine or 10 when my parents took my sister Ruth and me to see Rear Window. We didn't usually get invitations to their movie dates, so we were thrilled.I remember it being easy to insert myself into Hitchcock's world, which looked a lot like my own. In retrospect, it was quite an accomplishment that it felt real, because that world actually existed on an indoor set. I'm http://ginamoviemaven.blogspot.com/2008/05/rear-window.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gina Faust)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2090864816180155883.post-2499526243238031841Wed, 21 May 2008 18:45:00 +00002009-09-07T19:56:02.813-04:00Eraserheadmovie reviewmovie reviewsmoviesImage via WikipediaLike Ring of Bright Water, I saw Eraserhead when I was already grown up. In fact, my son Alan was a teenager. If it weren't for him, I would have just paid heed to Eraserhead movie reviews and never would have seen such a strange and -- I guess the best word is icky -- movie.When Alan was in high school, we moved to a new neighborhood. This meant he had to go to a new school. http://ginamoviemaven.blogspot.com/2008/05/eraserhead.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gina Faust)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2090864816180155883.post-3271266816566478095Sat, 17 May 2008 20:02:00 +00002009-05-04T17:18:17.538-04:00movie reviewmovie reviewsring of bright waterUnlike many of the other movies I write about, I actually saw Ring of Bright Water when I was already grown up and married.It's not a movie most people remember, probably because it rose and fell within the Saturday morning kid's B-movie circuit. That's where I saw it. Back in the days when the movie was making the rounds, I used to trade turns taking my son Alan and his friends to the http://ginamoviemaven.blogspot.com/2008/05/ring-of-bright-water.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gina Faust)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2090864816180155883.post-7784488290225443496Mon, 12 May 2008 15:09:00 +00002008-06-29T12:22:55.444-04:00movie reviewmoviesThe BirdsTippi HedrenImage via WikipediaWhat better title could they have come up with for this scary movie than the simple and elegant "The Birds"?The birds, indeed. They scared me half to death. I'm sure that's why my date (my first ever!) took me to see it. He knew the fear factor would ensure that I would clutch his arm all night long. And I did.When I saw the movie years later on television, the passage of time,http://ginamoviemaven.blogspot.com/2008/05/birds.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gina Faust)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2090864816180155883.post-9173284813638312674Thu, 08 May 2008 14:17:00 +00002010-04-01T14:27:29.523-04:00movie reviewsmoviesThe BlobImage via WikipediaI was a teenager when The Blob was released in theaters. My girlfriends acted like they weren't afraid when the movie started, but by the end one of them was crying and the other two were holding onto each other for dear life. As a sensible girl, I was terrified right from the start.This movie personified my fears at the time because teenagers tried to warn everyone that the http://ginamoviemaven.blogspot.com/2008/05/blob.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gina Faust)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2090864816180155883.post-6836440866364732862Tue, 06 May 2008 17:15:00 +00002008-11-06T23:59:27.006-05:00Bing CrosbyChristmasHolidaysmoviesRosemary ClooneyImage via WikipediaEvery time I asked my mother why we couldn't have a Christmas tree, all she said was, "Because we're Jewish!"I'll bet she's spinning in her crypt like a dreidel as I write this because there was something she never knew about me: I was obsessed with Christmas. That's why if White Christmas was ever on TV at a time when I could get some privacy, I used to watch it. Yeah, it was http://ginamoviemaven.blogspot.com/2008/05/white-christmas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gina Faust)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2090864816180155883.post-4044484085400284022Thu, 01 May 2008 16:20:00 +00002008-11-06T23:59:27.240-05:00Academy Award for Best PictureMartymoviesPaddy ChayefskyA Best Picture Oscar for Marty? Oy!There was a rumor going around years ago that producers Harold Hecht and Burt Lancaster financed Marty as a tax-write off, because they believed the film would lose money. Why it didn't is beyond me.The idea was good enough: two lonely, somewhat unattractive people come together and find love. But in execution, not so much. This is strange, since it was writtenhttp://ginamoviemaven.blogspot.com/2008/05/marty.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gina Faust)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2090864816180155883.post-6367835825899902592Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:02:00 +00002008-06-29T12:26:00.600-04:00movie reviewsmoviesI'm just busting to talk about all the movies I love and even those I don't. So much so that I'm willing to foist (or Faust, in this case) them on you.As a nice Jewish girl who grew up in Brooklyn, I watched many a movie on weekends. I wasn't allowed to date until I was 18, so movies were my best friends. I saw all kinds: good, bad and everything in between. And because I have a near photographichttp://ginamoviemaven.blogspot.com/2008/04/welcome-to-gina-faust-movie-maven.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gina Faust)0